@GottaLaff Love the final image of Musk's Minions at work.
#musk #doge #trump
“Are we going to break something?” acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek asked, referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. “I don’t know."
DoubleSpeak: "If you ask a National Park Service ranger how the Trump administration’s cost cutting will affect your next park visit, you might get talking points instead of a straight answer.
A series of emails sent late last month to front-line staff at parks across the country provided rangers with instructions on how to describe the highly publicized staff cuts. Park leaders further instructed staff to avoid the word “fired” and not blame closures on staffing levels.
On Feb. 14, at least 1,000 park service employees were terminated as part of broad reductions to the federal workforce by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. As a result, visitor centers have reduced hours, tours of popular attractions have been canceled, lines have spiraled, bathrooms may go uncleaned, habitat restoration has ceased and water has gone unchecked for toxic algae.
Meanwhile, rangers have been ordered to describe these cuts — or “attrition” and “workforce management actions,” according to the talking points — as “prioritizing fiscal responsibility” and “staffing to meet the evolving needs of our visitors.” They also should tell visitors the parks will continue to ensure “memorable and meaningful experiences for all.”
If asked about limited offerings, one park’s rangers were instructed to say “we are not able to address park or program-level impacts at this time.”"
https://www.propublica.org/article/national-parks-staff-cuts-talking-points
We are getting a glimpse of a #DOGE created future of unlicensed #MAGA healthcare with no #government #regulation.
Faces paralyzed by ‘dentists’:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/unlicensed-dentist-face-paralyzed_n_67d5dcdfe4b023f4b8b66ed0
Children incinerated by ‘doctors’:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/four-people-were-arrested-in-connection-with-5-year-olds-death-in-hyperbaric-chamber_n_67d08792e4b0f06c6b9f9774?origin=related-recirc
#Resist to #SaveAmerica !
This is what is expected to happen when you put a billionaire with a severe drug addiction problem in charge of monitoring the Federal Government spending of the world's largest economy
"“DOGE Has 10 Staffers at Social Security in Hunt for Dead People,” the headlines read this past week.
I found a dead person on Social Security. Right here in Seattle, on Capitol Hill.
Of course the circumstances of Ned Johnson’s death were completely the opposite of what Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had claimed was rampant.
“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”
That’s the biggest difference — my deceased guy turns out to be very much alive. Musk is contending that hordes of dead people are listed as alive in the Social Security databases, and are fraudulently still drawing benefits (which the Social Security director disputes).
Johnson is 82 and still kicking. Yet sometime last month, someone or something led Social Security to both tag him as dead and start clawing back his benefits.
Johnson’s strange trip through the netherworld began in February, when a letter from his bank arrived addressed to his wife, Pam."
Hey @juddlegum I used your new #Musk tracker doge.muskwatch.com & found $1.6 million in chainsaw cuts in Tom Cole (R-OK) district.
#DOGE's shitty AI likely thought Chickasaw Strategic Pointe is DEI because it's not run by white men.
@brianmerchant
h/t @emptywheel & @lolgop for the idea to link the 2.
#Boycott #AirBnB = #DOGE #billionarre co conspirator
#DOGE found a "dead" person (spoiler wasn't actually dead), drained their savings account, shut down their credit, cancelled their health insurance and stopped their social security retirement payments.
'Murika
Headline: Here’s a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to say
Voters flood town halls with fears of Social Security cuts, putting heat on GOP over Musk and DOGE
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and one of Trump’s most influential advisers, has called Social Security 'the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time'
Democrats confront limits of their minority power after bruising shutdown vote
“It’s like two horrible things, and you can’t imagine either one.” – Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo.
UKRAINIAN #CHILDREN SEARCH THREATENED DUE TO #MUSK: Elon Musk's #DOGE has stopped funding a Yale University team that was helping to track down children deported to Russia. They were gathering information from open sources about abducted children and passing it on to #Ukraine.
Fiasco for Musk as He Craters in New Polls and DOGE Cuts Lose in Court
As a judge blocks the Trump-Musk effort to fire thousands of federal workers, a close chronicler of Musk’s follies explains why the public backlash against him & #Tesla matters so much—and what’s coming next.
https://newrepublic.com/article/192747/fiasco-musk-craters-new-polls-doge-cuts-lose-court
"two new polls show approval of #Musk cratering—and importantly, that large majorities are turning against Musk’s mission of gutting the #government"
Who’s Running the DOGE Wrecking Machine: The World’s Richest Man or a Little-Known Bureaucrat?
...Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run #DOGE. One person who has been in meetings with Gleason described her as having “little to no actual decision making” responsibilities.
https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-leadership-elon-musk-amy-gleason-trump-ethics-conflict-of-interest
" #Musk himself issues commands from inside the Sect of War Suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Bldg, next to the #WhiteHouse"
Senate approves funding bill hours before shutdown deadline, sending to Trump for signature
Colorado Democratic senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper both voted against the measure.
See How Elon Musk’s Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its Savings Claims
#GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/musk-doge-changes-deletions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.304.pJHf.DTibHql8U3db&smid=url-share
Helpful animated graphics showing Doge's mistakes and lies.
"debuted a website last month... the list has undergone dizzying changes. New contracts have been added, others deleted. Values have been altered, and altered again...
more than 2,200 contracts listed — or 40% of the total — show a savings value of $0"
TSA Says Its Credit Cards for Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Are Cut Off
https://www.404media.co/tsa-k9-bomb-sniffing-dogs-funding/
"The #TSA spokesperson didn’t clarify whether these were #Doge cuts... but Elon Musk’s dept has been busy making poorly-coded & insecure websites, dodging #FOIA, gutting national parks resources... demanding federal workers list their weeks out in bullet points, and generally sowing #chaos all over the federal #government with layoffs & budget cuts."